To promote this film, the Gaumont catalogue evokes current events in the Italian-Turkish  conflict  that  was then shaking the region. With almost sublime disdain, it ignores the conflict, as if it wanted to emphasise ancestral beauty and dignity over the tragic small-mindedness of power games. It is an amazing journey through oases dotted with artesian wells, mosques, underground dwellings, olive presses, and fairytale constructions later duplicated on the planet Tatooine.

Andrea Meneghelli